The passing of Labor Day entail many thing to many people : Parents who ran out of ideas for activities in mid - July prostration in relief as kids finally head back to school , beach - dwellers emerge from their homes as the last RV oral sex out of township , and folk music , like me , who get paid for peering into Apple ’s doings predict the annual Special Event that signal chill Apple - branded trinket for the high holiday . With the announcement of that ego - same September 12th S.E. it ’s time to sift through the hints and tea leave .
What we know
The invitation reads , “ It ’s Showtime ” and reveal the Apple logo bath in the kind of spotlights hauled out for a Hollywood openings . The event is being held at the usual 10 AM ( leave mint of time for news program stories to hit the Web and the next day ’s composition ) . And it ’s being held in a giving room — theYerba Buena Center for the Arts — signalling that this is a bigger hand than last spring ’s debut of the iPod Hi - Fi .
What makes sense
pic are obviously the full stop here . There have already been leaks aboutLion ’s Gate films come to the iTunes Music Store . With Steve Jobs now a major participant at Disney it ’s likely that a list of comprise studios will admit The Mouse and Pixar .
Given line of work ’ desire to keep pricing for the most part ordered for medicine downloads , I imagine we ’ll see a “ one price fits virtually all ” framework for most movies with some fetching a higher Mary Leontyne Price — those that contain bonus feature , for example .
And what about something to view those motion-picture show on ?
A realVideo iPodrather than aniPod with video — one with a encompassing screen — has sure as shooting been in the works . give movies on the iTunes Music Store , what good time to turn an iPod that will expose them in their widescreen aureole ?
But lease ’s not forget that Jobs has said time and again that he does n’t see a huge market for portable picture show . Those iTunes picture show need a silver screen enceinte than any conceivable iPod . While the large LCD monitors that come with today ’s computer are an option , the genuine finish is the television — one that does n’t need you attach a electronic computer or iPod to watch picture purchased from iTunes .
So that fence for an AirPort Express - similar machine that steams both audio and picture between a figurer and a television jack up into the machine .
What’s intriguing
I ’m concerned in this possible action from a purely technical stand because I ’ve seen the current state of the art — sharing video via Front Row — and it ’s not salutary . Currently Front Row in league with Bonjour can ably share videos that are under an time of day only if you have a rock-and-roll - solid mesh connection ( ideally , Gb Ethernet ) and the TV are tightly compressed .
Any streaming gimmick is going to require a connection strong and faster than the current AirPort Express to provide full - length movies worth find out on a big screen TV . If the pipe from computer to gadget is wide enough , you need n’t smush the content to within an column inch of its aliveness to fit it through that tobacco pipe . If that pipework is n’t much more expansive , you ’re look at tweak your compressor so it provides better looking TV at lower bitrates . It will be interesting to see which way Apple go ( if not both ways ) if such a twist is revealed .
What else
These events incline to be pretty tightly focused so I do n’t see Jobs straying all over the merchandise mapping . A wide - screen iMac would meet if Apple ’s intending to play up the figurer - as - medium - center angle as it did when Jobs first showed off Front Row . A more expansive iPod nano would also work as an “ oh , this too ” item , unless the nano also becomes video - subject . upgrade to the MacBook Pro or MacBook seem off - subject matter so I do n’t see heavy things happening there unless Jobs throws it in as a newsy apart .
What you think
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